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<span class=large>HOSEA</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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Israel shall seek the Lord, return to the Lord, and receive of his goodness in the latter days.
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Then</span> said the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of <i>her</i> friend, yet an <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/3/1a" mark="a" type="C" title="Hosea 1: 2; TG Adultery.">adulteress</a>, according to the love of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/3/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR raisin-cakes (used in fertility rites).">flagons</a> of wine.
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So I bought her to me for fifteen <i>pieces</i> of silver, and <i>for</i> an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
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And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for <i>another</i> man: so <i>will</i> I also <i>be</i> for thee.
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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and <i>without</i> teraphim:
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Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/3/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 6: 11; D&C 113: 10.">seek</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, and <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/3/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 34: 24 (23-24).">David</a> their king; and shall fear the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> and his goodness in the <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/3/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 31: 29 (28-29).">latter</a> days.
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